After spending a week cruising down the Rhone river my wife and I need to get to Paris after disembarking in Avignon. We're looking for the best way to get there and have been researching the Rail Europe sight as it looks like a 3 hour high speed train ride seems to be the best option. Really don't want to fly. Anybody find any better way? Also sounds like the sooner one books a ticket, on Rail Europe at least, the cheaper the trip is (I've been watching rates fluctuate alot)?
Luggage is a concern as even with our best efforts to minimize what we take, since we're spending a some considerable time on this trip, we will have some full sized luggage so overhead space isn't an option for some of our cases. I've read that the trains have luggage areas near the entrances/exits to the train cars, but wondering about security unless we sit right next to these areas with our seats facing them. Thought about a way to lock the handles to the racks if they might have those metal racks for the luggage. Anybody have any good tricks?
Thanks!